Online genealogy in Friesland

The main resource for genealogy in Friesland is Tresoar, the website of the Frisian Historical and Literary Centre. I reviewed this website last year.

The new website AlleFriezen (All Frisians) aims to show "information from public records of the Registry Offices (since 1811) [and] to enable the viewing of the original certificates, belonging to that information". I.o.w., they will eventually have scans of all BMD acts of the civil register.

The image database Fries Fotoarchief (Frisian photo archive), maintained by Tresoar, has now 54,219 images. Unfortunately, it is only available in Dutch and Frisian. There are local image databases for Leeuwarden and other towns.

If you like this blog, you may also be interested in my other genealogy blogs: The Graveyard rabbit of Utrecht and Het Gooi, about cemeteries, burial customs and related topics in The Netherlands in general and Utrecht and Het Gooi in particular, and Roots, about my own roots.